Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
SURF's UP!!!!

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/eventmap.html

Not as worried about a tsunami.

I'm joining a few writers from other publications for a boat demo up in
Bellingham later this morning. Promises to be interesting; forecast
calls for sustained winds of up to 30 mph and gusts to 40. At least I
won't have to wonder how it handles in rough water. :-)

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
SURF's UP!!!!

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/eventmap.html

Not as worried about a tsunami.

I'm joining a few writers from other publications for a boat demo up in
Bellingham later this morning. Promises to be interesting; forecast
calls for sustained winds of up to 30 mph and gusts to 40. At least I
won't have to wonder how it handles in rough water. :-)


I think the highest *tsunami* wave was 1.5 feet high. ;-)

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
SURF's UP!!!!

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/eventmap.html

Not as worried about a tsunami.

I'm joining a few writers from other publications for a boat demo up in
Bellingham later this morning. Promises to be interesting; forecast
calls for sustained winds of up to 30 mph and gusts to 40. At least I
won't have to wonder how it handles in rough water. :-)


I think the highest *tsunami* wave was 1.5 feet high. ;-)


Caused damage in Crescent City, Ca. http://cbs5.com/
The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake destroyed something like the first 6
blocks of town with the Tsunami.

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
SURF's UP!!!!

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/eventmap.html

Not as worried about a tsunami.

I'm joining a few writers from other publications for a boat demo up in
Bellingham later this morning. Promises to be interesting; forecast
calls for sustained winds of up to 30 mph and gusts to 40. At least I
won't have to wonder how it handles in rough water. :-)


I think the highest *tsunami* wave was 1.5 feet high. ;-)


Caused damage in Crescent City, Ca. http://cbs5.com/
The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake destroyed something like the first 6
blocks of town with the Tsunami.


I was referring to the waves from this event. I guess my response was not
quite clear regarding that specific event.

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"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
SURF's UP!!!!

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/eventmap.html

Not as worried about a tsunami.

I'm joining a few writers from other publications for a boat demo up in
Bellingham later this morning. Promises to be interesting; forecast
calls for sustained winds of up to 30 mph and gusts to 40. At least I
won't have to wonder how it handles in rough water. :-)


I think the highest *tsunami* wave was 1.5 feet high. ;-)


Caused damage in Crescent City, Ca. http://cbs5.com/
The Good Friday Alaska Earthquake destroyed something like the first 6
blocks of town with the Tsunami.


I was referring to the waves from this event. I guess my response was not
quite clear regarding that specific event.


I was too. At least the first part. Destroyed 2 docks and set loose some
boats. Heard on the radio tonight that Santa Cruz harbor had one sunk
sailboat and 6 other boats damaged, as well as some docks.

JimH wrote:

I think the highest *tsunami* wave was 1.5 feet high. ;-)

I live about 3/4 of the way up Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, so I'm a few
hundred feet or more above sea level. If I'm home when a tsunami hits
and it *still* gets me, most of civilization as we know it will be
wiped out by the same wave.

My boat is now "inside" the locks, under covered moorage, so to get my
boat the tsunami would need to come roaring down the Strait of Juan de
Fuca, avoid smacking into the western edge of Whidbey Island and
instead make a miraculous turn of about 45 degrees turn to the SE down
Admiralty Inlet, avoid slamming into Edmonds and turn south toward
Shilshole Bay. The tsunami then needs to roar down a 300-400 yard wide
entrance channel to the Chittenden Locks and still retain enough energy
to breach the dam or the lock walls themselves. Then I'm in trouble,
I'm moored very near the locks. :-)

No, I'm not that worried about a Tsunami.

Out in the open ocean, a lot of tsunami waves are barely identifiable.
The pulse is spread across enough space and depth that some of the
tsunami waves in mid ocean can be measured in inches. Of course when
all that energy, maybe enough to run a pulse through hundreds of feet
of water, reaches the shallows a lof ot that water piles up into
disastrous waves, and that's why all the damage occurs.

Very few inland waterways, such as Puget Sound, would be at the same
type of risk for tsunami damage as a coastal community or an island.

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:51:15 -0800, Chuck Gould wrote:


Very few inland waterways, such as Puget Sound, would be at the same
type of risk for tsunami damage as a coastal community or an island.

I wouldn't get too cocky.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...tml?source=rss

thunder wrote:
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:51:15 -0800, Chuck Gould wrote:


Very few inland waterways, such as Puget Sound, would be at the same
type of risk for tsunami damage as a coastal community or an island.

I wouldn't get too cocky.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...tml?source=rss


From the article:

Martin said there's a low likelihood of a tsunami hitting Seattle.
Walsh said a magnitude-7.3 quake would occur, on average, about once in
every 2,500 years.
**

If there's a good chance that I'll live another 2500 years, I'm almost
certain to experience a tsunami in Seattle. :-)

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thunder wrote:
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:51:15 -0800, Chuck Gould wrote:


Very few inland waterways, such as Puget Sound, would be at the same
type of risk for tsunami damage as a coastal community or an island.

I wouldn't get too cocky.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...tml?source=rss


From the article:

Martin said there's a low likelihood of a tsunami hitting Seattle.
Walsh said a magnitude-7.3 quake would occur, on average, about once in
every 2,500 years.
**

If there's a good chance that I'll live another 2500 years, I'm almost
certain to experience a tsunami in Seattle. :-)


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